Waste biomass includes agricultural residues, livestock wastes, municipal wastes and industrial organic wastes. It should be utilised or otherwise,...

This book presents current research in the study of the chemistry, processes and application of gasification processes. Topics discussed include ex...

The Earth houses a vast energy supply in the form of geothermal resources. Domestic resources are equivalent to a 30,000 year energy supply at our ...

Geothermal energy is a form of renewable energy derived from heat deep in the earth's crust. Enormous amounts of thermal energy are continuously ge...

Geothermal energy is reliable, sustainable and environmentally friendly with less greenhouse emission, and therefore is drawing increasing attentio...

Geothermal energy is reliable, sustainable and environmentally friendly with less greenhouse emission, and therefore is drawing increasing attentio...

The United States is the global leader in installed geothermal capacity with approximately 3,086 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity, and is expec...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and their impacts on global warming have become one of the key issues of major concern in this century. Numerous res...

The Department of Energy (DOE)proposes under the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) to build facilities to begin recycling the nation's comme...

Buildings are made completely of materials. Hence, in this book, the characteristics of materials used in green buildings is elaborated on, includi...

Increasing concerns about global warming, energy independence and public health have contributed to a rise in public interest in so-called "green" ...

Today, the energy sources used to create electricity differ in many ways, including in their environmental impacts. In the United States, electrici...

Heating and cooling losses from forced-air ducts can result in high energy costs, lead to thermal comfort problems, and -- in some extreme situatio...

In thermodynamics, the exergy of a system is the maximum work possible during a process that brings the system into equilibrium with a heat reservo...

Book & CD. A light-emitting-diode (LED) is a semiconductor diode that emits light when an electric current is applied in the forward direction ...

It is a well-known fact that since the start of industrial crude oil extraction, some 150 years ago, the United States has consistently been the na...

In recent years, thermal control systems performance has improved in numerous ways due to developments in control theory and information technology...

Heat flux or thermal flux is the rate of heat energy transfer through a given surface. In this book, the authors present topical research in the st...

In this collection, the authors evaluate the thermal performance of a ground source heat pump (GSHP) system for cooling a typical household in Tuni...

Heavy oil is a crude oil of typically less than 20°API gravity and higher than 200 cp (centipoise) viscosity at reservoir conditions. It is charact...

The mysterious Unipolar Dynamo, so simple that even the earth's core has one, so powerful that it forges metal alloy billets and launches a rail gu...

This book presents topical research in the study of the economics, consumption and efficiency of household energy. Topics discussed include renovat...

With the ever-increasing worldwide demand for energy, and the looming crisis in petroleum supplies, energy storage is emerging as an important area...

Hydraulic fracturing is a technique used to recover oil and natural gas from underground low permeability rock formations. Hydraulic fracturing inv...

Hydraulic fracturing is a technique used to free oil and natural gas trapped underground in low-permeability rock formations by injecting a fluid u...

The cars which emit no greenhouse gases or creates no pollution... Cell phones and laptops working for a long time with a single cartridge without ...

In a world faced with massive and ever-growing energy demands where the environment is an important factor, an array of new technologies and or fue...

In his 2003 State of the Union address, President Bush announced a hydrogen initiative to reverse America's growing dependence on foreign oil and i...

In 2003, President George W. Bush announced the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative to accelerate the research and development of hydrogen, fuel cell and infr...

As many of the authors in this book note, the energy available in the hydrogen currently produced around the world is relatively small when compare...

The United States has produced clean, renewable electricity from hydropower for more than 100 years, but hydropower-producing facilities represent ...

This book covers recent advances and contributions to the area of digital signal processing. It starts with a revisit and a rewriting of the sampli...

Over the past five years, the Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences has engaged thousands of scientists around the world to study ...

Previous research on the effects of wind energy facilities on surrounding home values has been limited by small samples of relevant home-sale data ...

The U.S. pulp and paper industry consumes over $7 billion worth of purchased fuels and electricity per year. Energy efficiency improvement is an im...

Coal has long been the major fossil fuel used to produce electricity. However, coal-fired electric power plants are one of the largest sources of a...

The Hanford Site, in south-eastern Washington State, is a former nuclear defence production facility. A groundwater plume containing uranium, origi...

Book & CD-ROM. The U.S. industrial sector accounts for the largest share of energy consumption in the country, and energy efficiency improveme...

This book presents the latest research findings in modern technological developments based on synthetic chemicals that are highly toxic to the huma...

Today's buildings consume more energy than any other sector of the U.S. economy, including transportation and industry. The Energy Information Admi...

An insulator, also called a dielectric, is a material that resists the flow of electric current. An insulating material has atoms with tightly bond...

This book presents current research in the study of photofunctional hybrid materials having potential applications for current issues relating to e...

Many countries, reflecting very different geographies, markets, and power systems, are successfully managing high levels of variable renewable ener...